HQ 3.2 Release Notes
Hyperic HQ 3.2.5 Now Available
Hyperic HQ 3.2.5 is now available; download it here. This is a maintenance release to HQ 3.2, which was designed to provide a more powerful "single pane of glass" to monitor, diagnose and manage today's complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the most scalable and manageable enterprise monitoring software available in open source.
New Features and Enhancements in 3.2.5
HQ 3.2.5 offers these new and changed features:
- Platform FQDN Changes are Auto-Discovered - Changes in a platform's fully qualified domain name are auto-discovered.
- JMX Console - The JMX Console allows you to search for MBeans, display their attributes, and invoke selected MBean operations on them. When HQ alerts you of availability or health issues with a JVM resource or service, you can use the JMX Console to troubleshoot and resolve the problem. The JMX Console is available on the Views tab when you have a JVM server selected in the HQ Portal. For more information,see Using the JMX Console.
- Script Actions for Alerts - A script action allows you to access and use HQ environment variables that contain information about a fired alert. You can use the data in any fashion you wish, for instance in a web service call to external management system. For more information, see Define a Script Action for an Alert.
- Metric Display Auto-Reset from Alert Email links - The HQ Portal's metric display range for metrics and charts can be automatically reset to eight hours by clicking on a chart link in alert email notifications. For more information, see Monitoring Overview.
- New Escalation Pause Options - Escalation schemes have new pause options. It is now possible to configure the following pause durations: 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, or 60 minutes; 24, 48, or 72 hours; or until the alert is fixed.
Build #708
Introducing HQU Plugins
The HQU Plugin Framework provides easy access for operations to script and automate tasks so that they can better organize and manage their infrastructure. Written in Groovy, an easy to use, dynamic scripting language for the Java Virtual Machine, HQU's modular design enables plugins to be easily shared and added to live Hyperic HQ environments without stopping or restarting the HQ server. This saves significant time and resources and allows users to evolve their management approach over time.
Hyperic HQU plugins can be applied in three ways. Each application is fully documented, and useful examples are available on the Hyperic community HyperFORGE. Key applications include:
- Custom UI views allow improved tracking and automation of specific applications or hard-to-manage tasks. For example, an event log viewer makes it easier to find and fix problems through a comprehensive, filterable view of log data monitored across all HQ managed resources.
- Web Services integration allows Hyperic to easily syndicate key data across all systems that manage IT infrastructure. As an example, the OpenNMS integration exemplifies its ability to share inventory and alert information with a network management solution.
- A Groovy script console leverages templates to simplify manual, error-prone tasks through automation, such as creating HTTP check services for resources in a group.
New Features and Enhancements in HQ 3.2
New Diagnostics and Visibility
Today's IT administrators deal with an increasing burden of disparate technologies, and changing resources to monitor and maintain. Typically, they rely on a variety of utilities and diagnostic tools to ensure and restore availability to their systems. Hyperic HQ 3.2 introduces three new capabilities that provide both new and existing users of HQ a single console to manage all layers of their infrastructure:
- Live Exec Data - This feature allows HQ users to view - in real time - performance data for a single platform or across a number of platforms, in a rich, centralized user interface. The Live Exec Data framework is built OS-independent, which means that commands can be executed on both Windows and *nix systems. Executable commands include:
- Cpuinfo
- Cpuperc
- Df
- Ifconfig
- Netstat
- Top
- Who
- Currently Down Resources - This quick look screen gives users the ability to view all down resources and their length of down time at a glance in one page. The view can be more narrowly filtered by generic or specific resource type, and can also be sorted by resource name, type, exact down time, and length of down time.
- Nagios Import Utility - This new utility automatically imports Nagios hosts, commands and service object. This utility provides administrators currently using Nagios easy access to all the custom checks and configuration currently supported in their Nagios environment, while extending all the additional benefits and features of the Hyperic HQ platform to these users with the click of a button.
- Improved Nagios Integration - The Hyperic HQ 3.2 Nagios plugin has been extended significantly to provide Nagios administrators the ability to run Nagios plugins natively and view Nagios Services, Hosts, and Statuses in a way that is identical to the Nagios Service Details interface.
More Scalable, Manageable Infrastructure
Hyperic HQ users power some of the largest website and web applications in the world. Providing monitoring and management capablities at this scale can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. Hyperic HQ 3.2 introduces powerful infrastructure enhancements to ensure maximum visibility with minimum overhead:
- Scalability Improvements - Hyperic aims to provide the most scalable systems monitoring and management software available in open source with Hyperic HQ 3.2. Significant investment in powering more concurrent checks, collecting more log data, and increasing the database performance for both queries and data insertion will demonstrate immediate results for large scale enterprises.
- MySQL Database Support - Full support for MySQL database to be used as backend data store for Hyperic HQ 3.2, leveraging the proliferation of MySQL in the enterprise and existing DBA expertise. The performance of MySQL is expected to be on par with the other backend databases we currently support: Oracle, and Postgres.
- HQ Health Check - The Hyperic HQ Server now supports self-diagnostics on the performance of the server itself, providing users and Hyperic Support a better way to be assured their monitoring system is always available.
- Global Alert Disable - For scheduled maintenance or planned outages, the HQ administrator can globally disable all alerts on-demand in HQ 3.2, thereby preventing unwanted alerts from being generated during these times.
Installation Instructions
- Download the binaries here
- Installing for the first time? Read the Install Guide
- Need more help? Visit our Support or read the Forums
You Can Help!
- Bugs: Did you find a bug? View our Jira to see if it's been logged, or report the issue in HQ Bug Forum.
- Please include the configuration info for your deployment, including the build number, OS version, RAM, and JRE version (if you are using your own JRE).
- Questions: If you have questions about getting HQ installed or about new features:
- Expanded Community Rewards Program
To encourage the community even further to participate in improving the quality of both the new Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta, as well as Hyperic HQ installations in production today, we have extended the [Hyperic Community Rewards Program]. The program now provides members new points awarded for identifying new bugs, fixing reported bugs and contributing new plugins or HOWTOs for the HQ platform. Various rewards are available to power users who contribute at significant levels.
Issues
Known Issues in 3.2
Open
Reopened
Issues Fixed for 3.2.5
Hyperic JIRA
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HHQ-2266 | HQ not reporting or alerting correctly when Weblogic 10 is unavailable | Doug MacEachern | Nipuna Bhayani |
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 Closed
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FIXED | Jul 30, 2008 | Aug 08, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2310 | Add resource to group results in ClassCastException | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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